Julie Schmidt wrote this article while at the University of Wisconsin. The article was published in the school’s undergraduate research journal for psychology.
The article is discussing the value of teaching students about environmental issues. It was shown that students that participated in course that were based on environmental issues shoed significant changes to their life style and attitude toward the environment. This was concluded after surveying students that were participating in environmental courses and those who did not participate in such a course. The research was looking at the changes to attitude and finally actions after the course were completed.
The article is documenting the results of research on the changes of attitude after taking a course base on environmental issues. First the article discusses the background involved in people’s attitudes and decision making processes. The attitude of a person is greatly affected by the experience of the individual’s past and situations that attitude is associated with. In this case, the environmental call is able to associate a particular attitude with more issues to each individual in the course, there by changing their actions.
After the study was concluded the results showed that students who participated in the environmental course showed a significant increase in their willingness to expend effort toward environmental issues. This shows a simple relationship between understanding a problem and working toward a solution.
“Consequently, the more elements with which an attitude is connected, the broader the scope of situations to which the attitude is potentially applicable”
“ A large topic of interest within the environmental education realm is establishing how personal traits or lifestyle factors contribute to a person’s environmental attitudes and behaviors.”
“These results indeed stress a greater need for environmental awareness in the realm of mainstream education, in the hopes of providing students with the ambition and abilities to care for the environment while securing their future health and happiness.”
The research done is looking at the environmental awareness of students after taking a course on environmental issues. In such a course students are generally presented with new material that may contradict popular beliefs, or discuss and issue that is not generally discussed by students of a particular age. The value of such a course is not always in the facts that are presented but the ideas that go against what is socially accepted or ideas that are not considered culturally popular or easy. The challenging of these culturally accepted ideas forces individuals to assess their own values and ideas.
- Schmidt, Julie. “The Role of Environmental Awareness on College Students” University of Wisconsin LaCrosse, 2007. http://www.uwlax.edu/urc/jur-online/PDF/2007/schmidt.pdf
- Julie Schmidt wrote this article while at the University of Wisconsin. The article was published in the school’s undergraduate research journal for psychology.
- The article is discussing the value of teaching students about environmental issues. It was shown that students that participated in course that were based on environmental issues shoed significant changes to their life style and attitude toward the environment. This was concluded after surveying students that were participating in environmental courses and those who did not participate in such a course. The research was looking at the changes to attitude and finally actions after the course were completed.
- The article is documenting the results of research on the changes of attitude after taking a course base on environmental issues. First the article discusses the background involved in people’s attitudes and decision making processes. The attitude of a person is greatly affected by the experience of the individual’s past and situations that attitude is associated with. In this case, the environmental call is able to associate a particular attitude with more issues to each individual in the course, there by changing their actions.
“ A large topic of interest within the environmental education realm is establishing how personal traits or lifestyle factors contribute to a person’s environmental attitudes and behaviors.”After the study was concluded the results showed that students who participated in the environmental course showed a significant increase in their willingness to expend effort toward environmental issues. This shows a simple relationship between understanding a problem and working toward a solution.
“Consequently, the more elements with which an attitude is connected, the broader the scope of situations to which the attitude is potentially applicable”
“These results indeed stress a greater need for environmental awareness in the realm of mainstream education, in the hopes of providing students with the ambition and abilities to care for the environment while securing their future health and happiness.”